THE EXCHANGED LIFE BY ANDREW MURRAY
Andrew Murray's Testimony Christian Magazine on August 15, 1895 Murray was a man of such deep spiritual strength that people wanted to know his secret. How had God worked in his personal life? Although Andrew wrote books explaining how we need to live in Jesus, he refused to tell anyone about his own spiritual life. The famous Scottish preacher Alexander Whyte asked him for this information. Andrew's daughter pleaded. Others asked, too. But Andrew always shook his head "no." Jesus Christ should be exalted, not Andrew Murray. But at a Bible conference so many people urged and pleaded that Andrew finally gave in and wrote a short testimony for The Christian Magazine on August 15, 1895
Andrew Murray's Testimony Christian Magazine on August 15, 1895 Murray was a man of such deep spiritual strength that people wanted to know his secret. How had God worked in his personal life? Although Andrew wrote books explaining how we need to live in Jesus, he refused to tell anyone about his own spiritual life. The famous Scottish preacher Alexander Whyte asked him for this information. Andrew's daughter pleaded. Others asked, too. But Andrew always shook his head "no." Jesus Christ should be exalted, not Andrew Murray. But at a Bible conference so many people urged and pleaded that Andrew finally gave in and wrote a short testimony for The Christian Magazine on August 15, 1895
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justified me in the blood of Christ, but I have no power for service.<br />
My thoughts, my words, my actions, my unfaithfulness—everything<br />
troubled me. Though all around thought me to be one of the most<br />
earnest of men, my life was one of deep dissatisfaction. I struggled<br />
and prayed as best I could.<br />
"One day I was talking with a missionary. I do not think that he knew<br />
much of the power of sanctification himself, and he would have<br />
admitted it. When we were talking and he saw my earnestness, he<br />
said, 'Brother, remember that when God puts a desire into your<br />
heart, He will fulfill it.' That helped me; I thought of it a hundred<br />
times. I want to say the same to you who are plunging about and<br />
struggling in the quagmire of helplessness and doubt. The desire<br />
that God puts into your heart He will fulfill.<br />
"If any are saying that God has not a place for them, let them trust<br />
God, and wait, and He will help you and show you what is your place.<br />
So the Lord led me until in His great mercy I had been eleven or<br />
twelve years in Bloemfontein. Then He brought me to another<br />
congregation in Worcester about the time when God's Holy Spirit<br />
was being poured out in America, Scotland, and Ireland. In 1860,<br />
when I had been six months in that congregation, God poured out<br />
His Spirit there in connection with my preaching, especially as I was<br />
moving about in the country, and a very unspeakable blessing came<br />
to me.<br />
"The first Dutch edition of my book Abide in Christ was written at<br />
that time. I would like you to understand that a minister or a<br />
Christian author may often be led to say more than he has<br />
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